Gardezi, Maaz

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Iowa State University

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Maaz Gardezi's CV

Maaz Gardezi is a PhD student co-majoring in Sociology & Sustainable Agriculture and minoring in Statistics at Iowa State University. He holds a M.S. from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, with a concentration in environmental policy and planning. His B.S. is in Economics from the University of Bath, UK. He is interested in researching the influence of human values in enabling resiliency in social and ecological systems. He is currently researching the influence of social and biophysical vulnerability on Midwestern corn farmers' perception of climate change-related risk. This research is analyzing survey and government data by applying spatial and bayesian statistical applications. He is currently part of a USDA-NIFA ($20M) funded transdisciplinary, a multi-institutional team comprised of 140 members working to identify adaptive strategies for Midwest agricultural systems to climate change: Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project (sustainablecorn.org); USDA-NIFA Award No. 2011-68002-30190.

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SES resilience, climate change, perceptions, bayesian and spatial statistics.

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National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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